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Friend, the cleaning lady, the bank clerk. But be careful:
My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
The restaurant industry is brutal.
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?
If I'm not good enough because I'm a waitress, don't settle for me, don't sink down to my level. You don't deserve anything I have to offer. Let that shit hurt for a hot minute, simmer in it then leave me the fuck alone.
Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting. One of the first jobs I had was in a federally-funded program where I taught drama to young people.
I love room service!
Screwdrivers, women who screw drivers.
chefs, the Guatemalans, sometimes
Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.
SALES SPECIALIST. CAN EAT BITTERNESS AND ENDURE HARDSHIP.
Sterling Maids clean up with some sexy fun.
I tended bar and fucked hot tourists, it's what I did.
A simple job for simple people.
Accountants, they have a wild side to them.
A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables
People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.
I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.
I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.
I love restaurants, and I love cooking.
I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.
work without the control or supervision of whoever is paying them.
Squeezing breasts into pancakes all day has to be one of the worst jobs ever, in a serious tie with driving a Hertz bus in circles between the airport terminal and the parking lot. And those museum guards.
Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.
Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.
Also usually employed one or more resident physicians, barbers, priests, painters, musicians, minstrels, secretaries and copyists, an astrologer, a jester, and a dwarf, besides pages and squires.
In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.
schmoozes the customers, brings light and warmth to the
I'm a restaurant junkie.
As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended.
I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not predictable.
We are a bed business, and a coffee-room business. We are not a general dining business, nor do we wish it. In consequence, when diners drop in, we know what to give 'em as will keep 'em away another time.
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.
Take care of the elderly people.
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
My customers are successful workingwomen.
I'd rather be a happy Hooters waitress than a depressed out-of-work actor.
Around them, the hotel restaurant was busy. Last shift's prostitutes mixed with the next shift's tourists and businessmen at the cheap pink-lit buffet.
I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.
Dancing Bear
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24>$9.24>hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.
I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.
Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.
Angel, you got checkout girls in these here grocery stores cain't feed their own kids right, jazz musicians workin' for the post office because music don't pay the charge of admission to a nightclub. You might love your work but one day you wake up and find that your work don't love you.
Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles
which is the way they help me.
I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.
In my experience, I've noticed that waiting on tables is one of two things that almost everyone thinks they can do. The other is writing. Perhaps it's no accident that there is only one letter of difference between waiter and writer.
I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables.
Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.
In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists ...
I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.
I hoped it was a telemarketer. They were the only ones with jobs worse than mine.
I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world ... are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.
I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.
A petite, absolutely delightful waitress who, like everyone else, doesn't speak one word of English. But her smile is multilingual.
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.
Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.
I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.
Do you work in a strip club?
Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.
Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.
Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.
Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.
I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.
I'd love to work in a restaurant. You get to meet new people all the time and constantly socialize. There are no dull moments when you're serving. It would definitely be a fun job to have.
To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.
I look after people.
I was an actor in college and it was much easier than being a waiter. I thought it was fun to get paid. People were not exactly surprised to see me going in the field.
Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.
Are you busy?" the caller would ask. "Yes I'm working." Sitting in my chair, cats nearby, I was reading a great book. That was my job this year, and it was a good one. The salary was nonexistent, but the satisfaction was daily and deep.
I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.
I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.
Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.
I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
People need to know what their jobs are.
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!
I know my way around the kitchen. I like to cook, so I can fry an egg. I guess I could be a fry cook at Bob's Big Boy or something, or maybe a sous chef somewhere a little nicer. I would like to do that. I think I can probably pick that up pretty quickly.
Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves.
order to go to a bar, drink their asses off, flirt with strangers,
The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
paying the McDonalds' delivery boy. As
My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
People who love work, love life.
herding cats and shoveling smoke.
If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.